Monday, March 18, 2013

How He Loves - David Crowder* Band


Great video, POWERFUL words!!!

How could anyone think there isn't a God. He loves us so much, that He sacrificed His ONE AND ONLY SON to be our Savior !!!

He is jealous for me, and vigilant to protect me!

Some get it at a very young age. Some get it at middle age. Some don’t get it till much later in life.  I didn’t really get it till later in life, but I’m so thankful I did. He NEVER gave up on me. I know now, He tried to get my attention in many ways. Some were gentle, and some were with His wind of discipline. His love is like a hurricane, but serves for a great purpose, and I have become a better reflection because of His great mercy. It took the hurricanes of His love to prune me in so many areas of my life, to realize… “Oh, How He Loves”

I don’t know about you, but I hate when I hear a hurricane may hit us. Just knowing the damage that the wind can do. But God’s winds are different. They have a purpose, and are meant for our good, and the good of others. You learn to, maybe not like them, but understand them better. 2 Corinthians 4:17 says, “Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an ETERNAL GLORY THAT FAR OUTWEIGHS them all.”

Nahum 1:12 “Although I have afflicted you….I will afflict you no more.”  So by His word we could see that we will get afflicted. But we also see that it will end. Every affliction is for a reason, and that reason brings God glory. The darkness of all my afflictions, always become eclipsed by His glory. That’s when you realize just how beautiful He is, and how great His affections are for you.

You've seen what the winds of a hurricane can do to the fullest tree. Some branches not even touched, and some pruned to almost nothing. But when the storm passes, in time nature repairs everything to its beauty. That’s how God uses us . He says, "you remain in me and I in you..." (John 15:5). I believe this is something God teaches us in our walk with Him. The afflictions that come our way are only for a season. I don’t believe they end until our words and actions of our life, come to glorify God. To testify with praise and honor of what He has done, and is doing inside us. Taking all our weaknesses and fears, and showing His strength inside us. Taking our complaining and the “why me” and turning them into praise and thanksgiving.

I don’t envy anyone else’s walk, I learn by them that have been through the storms before me. I realize I have so much more to learn, and that God is never finished with us here.

I’ve come to realize some might have fuller branches than me, but we are all from the same root. I am still learning to bend beneath the weight of His wind and mercy.

Kim



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